The R3 is definitely going to be the thing that gets them into Europe. It looks fantastic and actually fits on our roads.

VW mostly stopped using the Rabbit name in 1985. It briefly made a come back in 2006 - 2009 for the Golf Mk5. The 1991 model would have been the Golf in NA. My parents purchased a 1987 VW Golf new which I then purchased from them in 1990 when leaving college. I owned it for another 4 years.

The R3 looks much more like a Range Rover than a small and nimble 90s VW Golf.

I really cannot agree at all. Maybe, maybe you can make an argument for the R2, but even that is more diminutive than most Range Rovers.

So perhaps Land Rovers are a better comparison? It surely reminds me a lot of the design of the Evoque which is quite small by Land/Range Rover standards.

Probably minus the NA labor problems.